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• Résumé : During the middle years of the sixteenth century, the Privy Council requested that the Archbishop of Canterbury supply them with detailed information regarding the holders of English clerical benefices; details such as their level of education, whether or not they were resident or held multiple livings, and their marital status. CCCC MS 122 and MS 97 contain numerous documents relating to this inquiry, including the Privy Council's initial request to Archbishop Matthew Parker, a draft version of Parker's request for information from the bishops and the detailed returns he received back from the bishops (often referred to as the 'Parker Certificates'). Some missing leaves from these two manuscripts, now CCCC MS 580, were discovered in the College Archives and transferred to the Parker Library in 1959.

  
  

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  Langue(s) des textes : anglais, latin

  
  

  Intervenants :

  Matthew Parker - author

  3-4 - Letter from Matthew Parker || Letter from archbishop Parker to the officials of the bishop of _____, directing him to make the certificate of his diocese: dated Lambeth Oct. 1, 1561

  Note : Printed in Parker's Correspondence CXI and Wilkins Concilia IV 227

  
  

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  John Scory - author

  5-178 - Returns for London diocese including letter from Bishop John Scory || Letter from Scory bishop of Hereford sent with the certificate of his diocese, in which he desires his cathedral church may be reformed, dated Whitbourne Feb. 1

  Note : Scory's letter is included within the Returns for London Diocese

  Note : Strype Parker I 190 (Chap. V)

  
  

  179-194 - Returns for Rochester diocese || Returns for Rochester

  
  

  195-267 - Returns for Peterborough diocese || Returns for Peterborough

  
  

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  Anthony Kitchin - author

  339-352 - Letter from Anthony Kitchin to Matthew Parker and Returns of Llandaff || Letter from Kitchin bishop of Landaff to the archbishop, sent with the certificate of his diocese: dated Matherne Jan. 20, 1560 || Letter from Kitchin and Returns for Llandaff

  Note : Browne Willis, Llandaff, p. 194

  
  

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  Peter Datheen - author

  435-436 - Letter from Peter Datheen to Matthew Parker || Epistola Petri Datheni comitis palatini legati ad archiepiscopum in qua gratias agit pro munere sibi ab archiepiscopo oblato et mittit ei numisma principis electoris, data Londini 24 Jan. 1574

  Note : Correspondence CCCLXVI

  
  

  437-438 - Letter from Matthew Parker in reply to Peter Datheen || Responsio archiepiscopi, data Lambeth 9 kal. Feb. 1574

  Note : Correspondence CCCLXVI

  
  

  439-440 - Letter from the city of Augsburg to Martin Bucer || Epistola consulis et prefect. Augustae ad Bucerum, in qua queruntur de Magistro Ioanne Forster concionatore suo

  Note : A Latin version of MS 119. 3